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Location: Red Bluff, CA | ThreeCorners - 2015-03-06 4:58 PM
I'm not opposed to breeding TB mares at all. Alot of very nice, very successful horses have come from TB mares and we should never forget what Three Bars did for the QH breed. Also, nobody can tell me TB's cant run barrels because I have known a few bang up TB barrel horses. The most recient is Jandee Smart's BCR Stella Bella. She is tuff tuff tuff on that horse and qualified to The American this year. Unfortunatelly tipped a barrel with a 14.9 in the long go. That said, I am not a fan at all with Storm Cat horses. I didnt look at the pedigree of your mare so I have no clue how far back he is. The further the better as far as I am concerned and honestly, I dont know a single one who has made it in the barrel pen. Maybe someone else knows of one? Thats not to say she isnt a nice individual herself and she may even be a great producer. She will obviously tell her own story.
As far as your stallion goes, he is a BS paint. Not alot of marketability there. He looks like a nice horse, but he is in all honesty not packing alot of selling points for building a breeding program around. There wont be much marketability in his foals unless you make it to the NFR on him or go win The American. He will have to really rattle peoples cage and do it many times to create a demand for his foals. Only because he isnt packing a stacked pedigree by being a direct son of a big name hall of famer type horse and he has no color. No color is great, IF they arent a paint. I 100% agree with the above though, if you really want to build a breeding program around this horse, then you are going to have to get some colored race mares under him so you at least have a chance at not going broke. It really is darn near impossible to re-invent the wheel. I'm not trying to be harsh, just honest. The horse business is whats harsh.
A friend of mine stumbled upon this post and I thought maybe I would help clarify a few things. BCR Stella Bella is in fact appendix, by a TB stud called For Really. I have personally owned and trained multiple colts of his and they have all had a natural talent and desire for barrel racing. The announcer at the Semis that year, my husband Steve Smart, was in fact correct. I did take a TB to a training competition called the Ultimate X Showdown. We.had 90 days to take a tb, straight from the track and turn into a barrel horse, with an added horsemanship class. The TB I chose was also by For Really, his name was Really Surprised and we ended up reserve champions. A few people have gotten that confused that it was Stella, in fact I was accused of using her at the competition but the notion didn't hold up as Stella is a mare, and Zoom is a gelding lol. Anyhow, I realize this was years ago on this post and thank you for be kind words. Stella is truly an amazing athlete, she qualified me for a repeat at the Semis but an injury kept her from making the trip back east and I ran a back up horse that year. |
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